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Duration of Urination Does Not Change with Body Size Duration of urination does not change with body size Patricia J. Yanga, Jonathan Phama, Jerome Chooa, and David L. Hua,b,1 Schools of aMechanical Engineering and bBiology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 Edited by David A. Weitz, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and approved May 14, 2014 (received for review February 6, 2014) Many urological studies rely on models of animals, such as rats and generate jets. Instead, they urinate using a series of drops, which pigs, but their relation to the human urinary system is poorly is shown by the 0.03-kg lesser dog-faced fruit bat and the 0.3-kg understood. Here, we elucidate the hydrodynamics of urination rat in Fig. 2 A–C, respectively. across five orders of magnitude in body mass. Using high-speed Fig. 1H shows the urination time for 32 animals across six videography and flow-rate measurement obtained at Zoo Atlanta, orders of magnitude of body mass from 0.03 to 8,000 kg. De- we discover that all mammals above 3 kg in weight empty their spite this wide range in mass, urination time remains constant, = ± = bladders over nearly constant duration of 21 ± 13 s. This feat is T 21 13 s (n 32), for all animals heavier than 3 kg. This ’ possible, because larger animals have longer urethras and thus, invariance is noteworthy, considering that an elephant sblad- ’ higher gravitational force and higher flow speed. Smaller mam- der, at 18 L, is nearly 3,600 times larger in volume than a cat s mals are challenged during urination by high viscous and capillary bladder at 5 mL. Using the method of least squares, we fit the ∼ 0.13 forces that limit their urine to single drops. Our findings reveal data to a clear scaling law shown by the dashed line: T M that the urethra is a flow-enhancing device, enabling the urinary (Fig. 1H). system to be scaled up by a factor of 3,600 in volume without For small animals, urination is a high-speed event of 0.01- to 2-s duration and therefore, quite different from the behavior of compromising its function. This study may help to diagnose uri- the large animals observed that urinate for 21 s. Fig. 1H shows nary problems in animals as well as inspire the design of scalable urination time across 11 small animals, including one bat, five hydrodynamic systems based on those in nature. rats, and five mice. Their body masses ranged from 0.03 to 0.3 kg. The large error bar for the rats is caused by bladder fullness ’ urology | allometry | scaling | Bernoulli s principle varying across individuals. Fig. 2D shows the time course of the urine drop’s radius measured by image analysis of high-speed edical and veterinary urology often relies on simple, non- video of a rat. To rationalize the striking differences between Minvasive methods to characterize the health of the urinary large and small animals, we turn to mathematical modeling of system (1, 2). One of the most easily measured characteristics of the urinary system. the urinary system is its flow rate (3), changes in which may be used to diagnose urinary problems. The expanding prostates of Modeling Assumptions. Urination may be simply described math- aging males may constrict the urethra, decreasing urine flow ematically. Fig. 1E shows a schematic of the urinary system, rate (4). Obesity may increase abdominal pressure, causing consisting of a bladder of volume V and the urethra, which is incontinence (5). Studies of these ailments and others often assumed to be a straight vertical pipe of length L and diameter involve animal subjects of a range of sizes (6). A study of D. We assume that the urethra has such a thin wall that its in- ternal and external diameters are equal. Urination begins when urination in zero gravity involved a rat suspended on two legs for the smooth muscles of the bladder pressurize the urine to P , long periods of time (7), whereas other studies involve mice (8), bladder measured relative to atmospheric pressure. After an initial tran- dogs (1), and pigs (9). Despite the wide range of animals used in sient of duration that depends on the system size, a steady flow of urological studies, the consequences of body size on urination speed u is generated. remain poorly understood. Previous medical and veterinary studies, particularly cystome- The bladder serves a number of functions, as reviewed by trography and ultrasonography, report substantial data on the Bentley (10). In desert animals, the bladder stores water to be anatomy, pressure, and flow rate of the urinary system. Fig. 3 retrieved at a time of need. In mammals, the bladder acts as shows urethral length (8, 15–25) and diameter (15, 24–34), flow a waterproof reservoir to be emptied at a time of convenience. rate (35–42), bladder capacity (25, 43–49), and bladder pressure This control of urine enables animals to keep their homes sanitary (1, 35, 39, 40, 43, 46, 50) for over 100 individuals across 13 species. and themselves inconspicuous to predators. Stored urine may even be used in defense, which one knows from handling rodents Significance and pets. Several misconceptions in urology have important repercus- sions in the interpretation of healthy bladder function. For in- Animals eject fluids for waste elimination, communication, and stance, several investigators state that urinary flow is driven defense from predators. These diverse systems all rely on the entirely by bladder pressure. Consequently, their modeling of the fundamental principles of fluid mechanics, which we use to bladder neglects gravitational forces (11–13). Others, such as predict urination duration across a wide range of mammals. In Martin and Hillman (14), contend that urinary flow is driven by this study, we report a mathematical model that clarifies mis- a combination of both gravity and bladder pressure. In this study, conceptions in urology and unifies the results from 41 in- we elucidate the hydrodynamics of urination across animal size, dependent urological and anatomical studies. The theoretical showing the effects of gravity increase with increasing body size. framework presented may be extended to study fluid ejection from animals, a universal phenomenon that has received little Results attention. In Vivo Experiments. We filmed the urination of 16 animals and obtained 28 videos of urination from YouTube, listed in SI Ap- Author contributions: P.J.Y. and D.L.H. designed research; J.P. and J.C. performed re- pendix. Movies S1–S4 show that urination style is strongly de- search; P.J.Y. and D.L.H. analyzed data; and P.J.Y. and D.L.H. wrote the paper. pendent on animal size. Here, we define an animal as large if it is The authors declare no conflict of interest. heavier than 3 kg and an animal as small if it is lighter than 1 kg. This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. Large animals, from dogs to elephants, produce jets and sheets 1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: [email protected]. – of urine, which are shown in Fig. 1 A D. Small animals, including This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10. rodents, bats, and juveniles of many mammalian species, cannot 1073/pnas.1402289111/-/DCSupplemental. 11932–11937 | PNAS | August 19, 2014 | vol. 111 | no. 33 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1402289111 Downloaded by guest on September 25, 2021 SCIENCES APPLIED PHYSICAL SCIENCES APPLIED BIOLOGICAL Fig. 1. Jetting urination by large animals, including (A) elephant, (B) cow, (C) goat, and (D) dog. Inset of cow is reprinted from the public domain and cited in SI Appendix.(E) Schematic of the urinary system. (F) Ultrasound image of the bladder and urethra of a female human. The straight arrow indicates the urethra, and the curved arrow indicates the bladder. Reproduced with permission from ref. 20, (Copyright 2005, Radiological Society of North America). (G) Transverse histological sections of the urethra from a female pig. Reproduced with permission from ref. 9, (Copyright 2001, Elsevier). (H) The relationship between body mass and urination time. Table 1 shows the corresponding allometric relationships to be This shape factor is nearly constant across species and body used in numerical predictions for flow rate and urination time. mass and consistent with the value of 0.17 found by Wheeler We begin by showing that the urinary system is isometric (i.e., et al. (55). it has constant proportions across animal size). Fig. 3A shows Peak bladder pressure is difficult to measure in vivo, and in- the relation between body mass M and urethral dimensions stead, it is estimated using pressure transducers placed within the (length L and diameter D). As shown by the nearly parallel bladders of anesthetized animals. Pressure is measured when the trends for L and D (L = 35M0.43 and D = 2M0.39), the aspect bladder is filled to capacity by the injection of fluid. This tech- ratio of the urethra is 18. Moreover, the exponents are close to nique yields a nearly constant bladder pressure across animal 1/3 = ± = the expected isometric scaling of M . Fig. 3B shows the re- size: Pbladder 5.2 0.86 kPa (n 8), which is shown in Fig. 3D. lationship between body mass and bladder capacity. The bladder’s The constancy of bladder pressure at 5.2 kPa is consistent with capacity is V ∼ M0.97, and the exponent of near unity indicates other systems in the body. One prominent example is the re- isometry. spiratory system, which generates pressures of 10 kPa for animals In ultrasonic imaging (Fig. 1F), the urethra appears circular spanning from a mosquito to an elephant (56).
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